Death Penalty - Law Dictionary Search Results
noncapital
noncapital : not involving the death penalty [a case]
capital punishment
capital punishment : death penalty
discretion
imposed by law [reached the age of ] [struck down death penalty provisions administered through unbridled jury "L. H. Tribe"]: as a
Centesimation
The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred as in cases of
voir dire
[voir diring prospective jurors as to their beliefs concerning the death penalty "State v. Ortiz, 540 P.2d 850 (1975) (concur)"]
try
to trial on behalf of a client [was unqualified to death penalty cases]
strike down
declare (a law) illegal and unenforceable [the court struck down death penalty provisions "L. H. Tribe"]
sentence
;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death … sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from
Children
the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of … Thereof the law with regard to cruelty to children. Special penalties are provided (s. 1) for the ill-treatment of children under
Reprieve
Temporary postponement of execution of a criminal sentence, esp. a death sentence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1305. Reprieve, is … take back], the suspension of the execution of a criminal's sentence. It may take place (1) ex mandato regis, at the
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